Montenegro v. Fontes
WIll consider whether portion of campaign-disclosure law that says rules and enforcement activity by a commission charged with implementing the law are not subject to limit by any “legislative governmental body”—which the trial court found to violate separation of powers principles—is severable from the rest of the law. Will also consider whether legislators have standing to claim that the law’s grant of general implementing power to the commission interferes with legislative power.
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